Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed with Nefer in Scroll Border
Description
Lapis lazuli
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A blue stone scarab with faint engravings.
The artifact is a scarab amulet made of blue stone, likely faience or possibly lapis lazuli. The surface shows faint signs of engraving, suggesting possibly worn or eroded hieroglyphs. The shape is typical of scarabs used for amuletic purposes in ancient Egypt.
decorative
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
faiencepossibly lapis lazuli
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245524 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.275 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545091 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.